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STRIVE

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strive, past strove, part. trec. striven verb intranzitiv

1. a tinde, a năzui; a depune / a face eforturi sau toate eforturile; a se sforţa, a se sili, a se strădui, a căuta, a încerca (cu tot dinadinsul), a-şi da (toată) osteneala;

to strive to gain one’s freedom a se strădui să-şi dobândească libertatea.

2. a lupta, a se lupta, a se bate; a rezista, a opune rezistenţă, a se împotrivi; a se zbate.

3. to strive after a urmări (un scop), a se strădui să obţină / să dobândească (ceva); să atingă (un scop);

what are you striving after? ce urmăreşti? care ţi-e scopul? pentru ce te străduieşti / te lupţi / te zbaţi?;

to strive against a (se) lupta contra / împotriva (cu gen.) / cu (şi fig.);

to strive for a) a urmări (un scop), a se strădui să obţină / să dobândească (ceva), să atingă (un scop);

to strive for victory a se strădui să obţină victoria; b) a disputa (ceva), a lupta pentru (ceva);

to strive for the mastery a lupta pentru prioritate;

to strive hard a depune / a face toate eforturile, a se strădui din răsputeri;

to strive with a) a (se) lupta contra / împotriva (cu gen.) / cu (şi fig.); b) a rivaliza / a se întrece cu;

to strive with smb. for smth. a disputa cuiva ceva, a se lupta cu cineva pentru ceva.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I have striven long to avoid exposure, and I should not like it to come at last.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

But it was the will of the god, and he strove to submit.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Does not one fair kingdom content you, that you should strive so for this other one which has no love for you?

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Three times he struggled to his feet, striving to gain the galley, and each time was knocked down.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He, as a man, no longer strove.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

He strove to stir himself and find something to interest him.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Her lips were parted, and she was breathing—not softly as usual with her, but in long, heavy gasps, as though striving to get her lungs full at every breath.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them, but allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Harriet did think him all perfection, and maintained the non-existence of any body equal to him in person or goodness—and did, in truth, prove herself more resolutely in love than Emma had foreseen; but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend its continuing very long in equal force.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Then must you strive to be worthy of her love.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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